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Congratulations Florida, you've just made every owner of a beach umbrella a felon.
Misters are also illegal now,
What about ladies?
Slow clap
Also, every commercial passenger flight is a felon. They are an apparatus released into the atmosphere, and affect weather/climate/intensity of sunlight by causing global dimming. Furthermore, they take the atmosphere in through their engines, and run it through a bunch of air conditioners to cool and filter the air for the cabin, expressly for the purpose of affecting the temperature and climate inside the aircraft, and then exhaust it out of the aircraft back into the atmosphere. Checkmate.
I am all for classifying pollution this way the law, as written, excludes it with this part:
"...for the express purpose of affecting..."
The express purpose of releasing pollution from jets is to provide thrust for transportation. The pollution is a byproduct and not part of the express purpose. An umbrella's function of blocking the sun is an express purpose of the device.
Very true, your example is airtight. Where mine gets a bit more in the weeds, is the air conditioners and filters in the cabin have an express purpose of manipulating the temperature and climate, that is their only purpose. Otherwise the air coming into the cabin would be so hot from being compressed in the engines everyone would die and all the machines onboard would overheat.
It was a bit more technical, complicated, (air inside a plane in the atmosphere is still air from the atmosphere being manipulated!) and on the edge though, and not as easily conveyed as umbrellas.
Kudos for yours though, it was to the point.
So perhaps, they should just ban the air conditioners on jets to get it technically correct?
I think you've accidentally uncovered a better example. Regular home A/Cs work by releasing hot air into the atmosphere:
To make the inside cool, they have to disperse hot air (which is definitely a chemical or substance) into the atmosphere. That is their express purpose.
So by this law, A/C in Florida is banned.
The "have to" is the side effect though. The "express purpose" is still to produce cool inside air.
That's like saying the express purpose of hunting isn't to kill something, it's to acquire meat. The express purpose is to move heat from inside to outside. You can't "produce" cool air, you can only move heat.
If you're hunting to eat, the express purpose of hunting is to acquire meat. If you're hunting for sport, then you may not care about the meat the express purpose would be the desire to the kill or the resulting trophy.
You're focusing on the mechanism. The definition of "express purpose" is focusing on the result.
Then go to the store. If you're hunting, assuming it's not for sport, your express purpose is to kill something to eat. You don't get meat without the death. Likewise, the express purpose of A/C is to move heat outside. You don't get the heat out of the inside without releasing it to the outside.
The laws of thermodynamics are not a side effect. Again, you cannot "produce" cold air, it cannot be the purpose because it is not physically possible. The result is transporting heat from inside your house to the outside atmosphere. That is the express purpose of the air conditioner.
The express purpose is to affect the temperature within the state borders (inside a building, which is still in the borders).
...but may be hard to argue it meets the other clause of "in the atmosphere". Yes, there is air in the building, but unless the building isn't well sealed (which it would be generally well sealed to keep the cold in) then the cold isn't expressly being released into the atmosphere.
Just hold on very tight so you don't release your sunblocking apparatus into the atmosphere.
If its on a pole stuck the ground exposed to the air, its already in the atmosphere and as it is not contained in some other bag or box, it is "released". Pay your $100k fine citizen.
You use sun block? Straight to jail.